The game featured two different styles off offensive attacks and both were successful. Fontainebleau (7-1, 2-0) used a small ball attack with a lot of slap hitting and bunts. Northshore (5-2-1, 1-1) had mostly a power game going, hitting gap-to-gap with some bunts and infield hits sprinkled in.
The Lady Bulldogs tallied two in the first and three more in the second to take what seemed to be a commanding 5-0 lead.
 Northshore catcher Haylee Lanzas tags out FHS' Dani Revon at the plate on a throw from centerfielder Chelsea Nette during the first inning of Thursday’s game at NHS. (Staff Photo by Chris Kinkaid) |
In the second, Kendyl Stevenson singled and Sammy Taylor moved her up with a sacrifice bunt. Becki Meinhold produced her first of three RBIs with a double to make it 3-0. Following the second sacrifice bunt of the inning, Kristin Koen made it 4-0. Meyer’s run-scoring single capped the rally at 5-0 heading to the bottom of the second.
Then Northshore’s bats came alive as the Lady Panthers scored five times to knot it at 5-5, while sending nine players to the plate. Kasi Wood began with a walk and stole second. Carley Short’s single moved Wood to third. Then Short stole second, but the throw was wild and Wood came in to make it 5-1. After the first out, Kate Donnelly singled. With two outs, the Lady Panthers strung three-straight hits together. Ashley Subervielle collected an RBI single, Lanzas had a two-run double and Kayla Panks got an RBI triple, tying things at 5-5 through two innings.
But Fontainebleau took back the momentum. Jennifer Tuohy doubled and eventually scored on Stevenson’s RBI ground out to second.
Back came Northshore in its half of the third. Wood reached on an error, stole second and got to third on a wild pitch. Short was next and drew a base on balls. On the play, Short took off for second. FHS got the out there, but Wood scored to retie the game at 6-6.
With the score still tied at 6-6 in the fifth, Fontainebleau put up four runs.
Revon walked, followed by Amanda Lassus’ single. Kayla Thomas’ sacrifice bunt moved the runners up. After a strikeout, Taylor beat out an RBI infield single, giving her club a 7-6 edge. Meinhold added some insurance with a two-run double to centerfield and it was 9-6.
“It’s pretty exciting for me because I haven’t been hitting at all,” Meinhold said. “Just to get those hits it was great.”
Brooke added S run with an RBI single to make it 10-6.
The Lady Bulldogs picked up another run in the sixth on Lassus’ RBI single, making it 11-6.
“We kept talking that hey, we do not have enough runs,” FHS coach Chris Nelson said. “Me and my assistant coach Richard Glory were talking. We said we do not have enough runs. Even when we were 11-6 we do not have enough runs because I know the kind of offensive ball club they are. I knew they weren’t going to quit. They just flat out pound the ball. They really do hit the ball.”
FHS needed all the run because in the seventh with it still 11-6, NHS mounted a huge rally.
Kayla Panks singled with one out. Katlin Simmons split the left-centerfield gap for a double. After the second out, Short posted a two-run single. Kristin Gekler singled and then Kate Donnelly’s two-run double made it 11-10. The Lady Panthers put the potential game-winning run at the plate, but Meyer (3-0), who threw five relief innings, got a groundout to third to end it.
NHS coach Marian Eades said she was happy about her club for not quitting, but wasn’t thrilled with the overall performance.
“I’m proud of them for fighting back, but we never should’ve been in that situation,” Eades said. “I thought we played very poorly. I thought that our defense was not how it normally is and we just played too inconsistent today.”�
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